Last Night’s TV: Prisoners’ Wives

Five stars for the magnificent molls. The drama seemed to be aiming to be superior trash, but ended up simply superior

Prisoners’ Wives

BBC One

I complained the other week that Prisoners’ Wives’ opening titles omitted the required apostrophe. Last night, during the serial’s final outing, I saw why. A possessive might imply that the prisoners owned these women and the drama’s whole progression was to show that they did not. The point was made with maximum irony as the pregnant wife, Gemma, was pursued through Sheffield Castle Market by an associate of her murderous husband Steve. The chase scene raised the heart-rate but it was also original. Gemma’s waters broke midway through and the sequence ended with a delivery in the women’s loos just…